Arcadia : District Boundaries Redrawn

In an effort to balance the numbers of students enrolling in the city’s nine elementary and middle schools, the Board of Education has approved new boundaries.

The school board voted unanimously last Tuesday to redefine the boundaries for the Arcadia Unified School District’s six elementary and three middle schools. Parents who disagree with their children’s school assignment can petition the district for reconsideration.

Letters will be sent out after Jan. 1. notifying parents which school their children will attend in September, 1994.

District officials say about 300 of the 6,000 students now enrolled from kindergarten to ninth grade will be shifted to new schools.

The previous boundaries were drawn in 1981 and have resulted in severe enrollment imbalances.

At Camino Grove Elementary School in the southeast area of the city, 820 students enrolled this year, compared with 520 students at nearby Baldwin Stocker Elementary School.

The school board earlier this year approved a reconfiguration of the schools for September, 1994, moving sixth-graders to the middle schools and ninth-graders to Arcadia High School.